I’m trying to make this blog from my Blackberry. I’m a little slow and I’d rather focus on the excellent presentations of the subject conference so I’ll try to make it short.
Yesterday was the opening and I should say it was great — nice tour on the Whiskey Heritage Center and couple interesting and humorous [...]

You are following the blog than you might recall that I’m going to make a presentation on the Miracle Scotland Database Forum 2007. My presentation is called RAC load testing adventures and it’s based on a project I’ve been through with one of our clients.
Courtesy of my good mate, Doug Burns, I arrived a little [...]

With this post, I’m starting a series about Oracle Block Change Tracking internals. The feature was introduced in Oracle 10 Release 1. I have already published my past presentations and the white paper about that, so what pushed me to get back to this topic again? A few things:

During my presentations, the audience wasn’t [...]

One of our clients had an ORA-1555 “snapshot too old” error two nights in a row. The quick and dirty fix would be to increase the retention_period and the potential size of the UNDO tablespace.
I was looking at it together with Dave, my new team mate, and a small detail popped up right away — [...]